The whole point of the Saboteur Awards Festival this year, to me, was to put a spotlight on artists and organisations who had been impacted by the pandemic. That’s why our festival line-up is packed with amazing performers and organisations, lending their time, their words and their talent to digital audiences.
The whole point of the Saboteur Awards Festival this year, to me, was to put a spotlight on artists and organisations who had been impacted by the pandemic. That’s why our festival line-up is packed with amazing performers and organisations, lending their time, their words and their talent to digital audiences.
– Written by Hannah Ledlie – I suspect Jet Sweeney’s ‘Mountain’ might be a marmite poem. To test this theory
-Reviewed by Grace Atkinson- Written in memory of her mother, who died of motor neurone disease in 2012, Siofra McSherry’s Requiem guides
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After the unexpected changes to the Saboteur Awards Festival 2020, a lot of thought has gone into how the 2021 festival might look…
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-Reviewed by Fiona Moore- A reviewer couldn’t make a better start than by quoting the author’s own introduction to Firing
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–Reviewed by Trahearne Falvey– A few pages into ‘A Barbecue and an Exhumation in Victoria Park Village’, the centrepiece of
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-Reviewed by Harry Buckoke- Sarah James’ “multi-media poetry narrative” draws elements from early text adventure video games, horror films and
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-Reviewed by Alice Allen- The opening poem in Sheryl Pearson’s astonishing pamphlet of meditations on animals invites the reader to
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–Reviewed by Mikiko Fukuda– Diane Simmons expertly uses flash fiction pieces to capture the complexities one family experiences over four
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– Written by Hannah Ledlie – I suspect Jet Sweeney’s ‘Mountain’ might be a marmite poem. To test this theory
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-Reviewed by Pam Thompson- What is contemporary gothic? Editor Nisha Bhakoo’s aim in selecting poems for this anthology was ‘to
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-Reviewed by Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig- Weeds are underrated. Underdogs that thrive in the smallest of spaces with the littlest of nutrients
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